You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Well, if you’d let me explain before you went bolting outta the room, then you’d know, wouldn’t you? It seems to me that you’re quite dead. So I’ve come to collect you.” –Sam

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.

Trying to convince myself I've found one. Making the mistake I never learned from.

Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

You can see the actions that the Russians are trying to take in eastern Ukraine. And so it's so important that we take actions to deter further Russian aggression against the Ukrainian people.

When I die, I'd like 'Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.